end of an era

[Ken]

With all of the remembering of computers any one still have a roll of 13/16th paper tape for a Teletype KSR machine. Model 14
E-bay has sales for the tape but cannot see the price of 39 +8bucks shipping.
The reason was reading Soundguys problems in installing New software to his IE6
And had spent the day trying to get a Teletype Model 15 to allow the keyboard to print to itself. some one had wired the keyboard out with a jumper.
Instead of trying to locate a book just down loaded to printer the electrical diagram. If had this when working would of been a wizard .
Does anyone still repair electronic equipment from what I see they just swap out the board or the whole machine. and never check what failed causing a outage.
Tried to visit the building where used to work 20 years ago. would not allow entrance and no body worked with was around any more. (They were all like me old what's his name used to work here.)

My John Deere has more electronic's than the computers used to work on.
ken

 

[Ken]

Even stuttering when posting a reply

 

[dragoneggs]

If you don't know what "9-edge face down" means, you don't know. . . . If you never walked into a computer room and had to scream over the sound of blower fans and line printers, you don't know. . . All the sciences used Fortran (FORmula TRANslation) , but COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language) was the language that built business. Anyone know what the acronym ASCII stands for off the top of your head? I just say that I'm old enough to know all those things and remember the time when you really needed to know them to do anything with computers. Today, you just touch the screen and drag icons around to do work. We've gone from being pencil pushers to picture pushers.

BTW: Remember serial port printers? I talking about the old serial ports. In some ways, the printers have come full circle from serial to parallel and back to serial (USB) again. However, I love my wireless (WIFI) printer, an Epson Artisan 837. It has been very robust ever since I installed it. I guess you could really say we've come full circle from writing with a feather quill to inkjet printers that spray ink onto the page. All that laser stuff and toner mess was just a bump in the road.

Yup 9 edge... A really bad thing was to drop your full tray of ordered cards on the way to load them! trying to get them in for compiling before the deadline.

 

[dragoneggs]

My first PC purchase... TRS80 w/cassette drive. Couldn't afford the floppy drive. Basic.

 

[ultrarunner]

My Bridgeport Tape Mill uses punched paper tape with a slosyn reader...

Have the old tape punch typewriter... guess it should be in a museum?

 

[Ken]

My Bridgeport Tape Mill uses punched paper tape with a slosyn reader...

Have the old tape punch typewriter... guess it should be in a museum?

Ultrarunner I am working on a model 14 and 15 Teletype to donate to a Museum for display of how electronics used to be.
"0" weight oil and paper tape getting hard to locate . Or at a price I'm unwilling to pay.

ken

 

[Ken]

My Bridgeport Tape Mill uses punched paper tape with a slosyn reader...

Have the old tape punch typewriter... guess it should be in a museum?

Ultrarunner I am working on a model 14 and 15 Teletype to donate to a Museum for display of how electronics used to be.
"0" weight oil and paper tape getting hard to locate . Or at a price I'm unwilling to pay.

ken

 

[MossRoad]

again.. all that info.. experience.. etc. useless now..

It not useless at all because it taught you how to grasp concepts and troubleshoot. Those are skills that will last you through your lifetime on any project involving anything.

 

[weedpharma]

A couple of mentions of "slydrools", Luxury! But what about what about logarithms? :thumbdown:

I have a small collection of ancient technology, a couple of 8" drives, a 256k memory expansion card, a few 286, 386 and 486 computers, a few core memory boards and more. An earlier post referred to women threading wire through magnets. The "magnets" where actually ferrite donuts that are magnetised by the current in a wire passing through it. The magnetism only lasts a very short time and constantly requires remagnetising.

Weedpharma

 

[dave1949]

A couple of mentions of "slydrools", Luxury! But what about what about logarithms? :thumbdown:

I have a small collection of ancient technology, a couple of 8" drives, a 256k memory expansion card, a few 286, 386 and 486 computers, a few core memory boards and more. An earlier post referred to women threading wire through magnets. The "magnets" where actually ferrite donuts that are magnetised by the current in a wire passing through it. The magnetism only lasts a very short time and constantly requires remagnetising.

Weedpharma

The old Honeywell 716 series used core memory boards. There was a bootstrap routine that you loaded into memory by using a row of flipper switches on the front panel to put in octal (IIRC) values. Those core memory boards could be loaded in one machine, removed and plugged into another machine to boot it.